Sotheby's Quickly Auctions
Pricey Cezanne, Degas Works

NEW YORK -- It proved stunningly easy to sell million-dollar artworks at Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art Tuesday evening, but cheaper art remained unsold.

While conventional wisdom had held that the spectacular prices of the 1980s' art boom were a fluke, many works met and exceeded those levels in Tuesday night's auction. A lush green Paul Cezanne landscape, taken home from auction in 1988 by a Japanese gallery at a...